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Biography

Yee-Fui researches in the areas of politicalintegrity and the law, as well as the interaction between public law and politics. She is particularly interested in the influences on the contemporary Executive, such as ministerial advisers, the media and lobby groups, which have led to reactive government decision-making and policy-making.

Yee-Fui is the author of The Rise of Political Advisors in the Westminster System (Routledge, 2018) and Ministerial Advisers in Australia: The Modern Legal Context (Federation Press, 2016), which was a finalist for the Holt Prize. She also co-authored Douglas and Jones's Administrative Law (Federation Press, 8th ed, 2018), and co-wrote the chapter on the Executive (with Terence Daintith) in the Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2018).

She was awarded the Monash Silver Jubilee Postgraduate Research Scholarship, as the highest ranking PhD applicant in the University, as well as the Monash Postgraduate Law Dean's Award, as the top-ranking PhD applicant in the Monash Law Faculty.

Yee-Fui's work has been recognised by the federal government and Parliament. She was invited to deliver a significant public lecture on the accountability of ministerial advisers as part of the 2017 Senate Occasional Lecture Series. She was also invited to give evidence to a federal parliamentary inquiry into political donations and has written key reports for the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption and the New South Wales Electoral Commission on the regulation of political lobbying. Yee-Fui has provided training to senior military officers on dealing with ministerial advisers at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies.

Dr Ng is a prolific commentator on contemporary political issues in both electronic and broadcast media, including in The Conversation, ABC radio and SBS television. In 2017, Yee-Fui was the winner of the RMIT University MediaStar of the Year Award for the College of Business.

Dr Ng is a Victorian Convenor of the Electoral Regulation Research Network. She has previously worked as a Policy Adviser at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, a Senior Legal Adviser at the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, as well as a Manager at the Victorian Department of Justice. Yee-Fui has also practised as a solicitor at top tier law firms in Melbourne, London and Canberra, and has researched and taught at the Australian National University and RMIT University.

Keywords

Law and politics

Constitutional law

Administrative law

Public law

Political integrity

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